by David Brooks | Apr 3, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
The above illustration was put together by the National Weather Service office in Gray, Maine, which also covers most of New Hampshire. It reflects the winter in Portland, but the general idea is the same throughout the Northeast. Here’s the accompanying writeup...
by David Brooks | Apr 3, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
This story, by Ethan Dewitt, was in Tuesday’s Concord Monitor: A recent string of autonomous driving fatalities has rattled consumers, prompted states and cities to review testing laws, and put the companies behind the vehicles – from auto manufacturers to tech...
by David Brooks | Apr 3, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
There’s something about the term “waste heat” that just cries out for a clever engineering fix. Heat can do work, so if an industrial process or power production creates too much of the stuff, why can’t we make use of it? Joe Kellogg, who works with weird materials...
by David Brooks | Apr 2, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
Changes in the beer industry that led a bottle factory to shut in Massachusetts, combined with China’s continuing crackdown on recycled materials, is starting to make it harder for New Hampshire to recycle glass containers. “I hear anecdotally that communities who...
by David Brooks | Apr 2, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
Blimps are much cooler than drones, don’t you think? Of course you do. So let’s celebrate the fact that an MIT-connected startup called Altaeros Energies is building a blimp hangar in Fremont, N.H. – halfway between Manchester and the Seacoast...
by David Brooks | Apr 2, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
From UNH News Service: White pine needle damage, a complex of foliar diseases that is being accelerated by the region’s warmer, wetter springs, is slowing the growth and hampering the health of the region’s eastern white pines, according to new research from the...
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